2010-2019 Top 40 China Ugly buildings:Part 1
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“China’s Top 10 Ugly Buildings” was an event sponsored by Changyan website, which aims to curb the frequent appearance of ugly buildings and promote excellent architectural culture.
In 2019, “China’s Top Ten Ugly Buildings” has been successfully held for ten sessions in Beijing. With the passage of time, the public’s perception of ugly construction is constantly “evolving”, and some buildings that are vain and ignore the actual value can hardly escape the discerning eyes of the public.
BACKGROUND
This selection focuses on the development of Chinese architectural culture, criticizes the evil from a professional perspective, allows the owners, contractors, architects and the public to guides the healthy development of the industry. The selection of ugly buildings is not to hit someone or a building, but to curb the frequent appearance of ugly buildings and promote excellent architectural culture. Next, the ugly selection activity will continue until our architectural design achieves a truly rational and healthy development. This is the ultimate goal of the ugly building selection.
ELECTION STANDARD
The function of the building is extremely unreasonable
Extremely inharmonious with the surrounding environment and natural conditions
Plagiarism, copycat
Foreign and antiquestyles
Eclectic, patchwork
Blind Bionics
Deliberately symbolic, metaphor
Weird and vulgar shape
Do it deliberately when you know it is impossible
Since 2010 -2019,90 buildings were elected as the China TOP10 ugly buildings,here we introduce the most typical and most ugly buildings,most buildings are based on China culture,and were designed based on the symbols of China happy elements,or simulate famous oversea buildings,or,with unique and strange shapes,whether it’s similar to spaceship,hot pot,or drums.
Shenyang Fangyuan Mansion
The building design looks like ancient China coin,the exterior is round and inner with a square,100% same .
Designed by C.Y. Lee & Partners in Taiwan, it is used as an office building with a construction area of 48,000 square meters, a building height of 99.75 meters, and a total of 24 floors. In January 2012, it was selected as the ten ugliest buildings in the world by CNN.
shenyang fangyuan mansion-china ugly building
Beside this,in Guangzhou,another building was designed to be same shape…
guangzhou-top 10 ugly buildings in China
Handan Yuanbao Pavilion
The pavilion was designed to be same as a golden ingots,which is also the symbol of money and wealth.The pursue of money and wealth is always the good idea for designers.
This is the only building ,another building height 123 meters has the similar design purpose.
Jinquan Times has a building area of 150,000 square meters and a total building height of 122.8 meters. The facade adopts all-golden glass curtain walls. The building structure is a pure steel frame structure. The steel consumption is 37,000 tons, which is equivalent to three-quarters of the steel consumption of the Bird’s Nest. ,
China white-house,the white-house actually is a government building located in a small county,the building copied USA white house.
Typical European style, huge and neat lawn, tall and gorgeous walls, and no national emblem hung, “If it weren’t for the red flag , I really don’t know if it is in the United States or China.” A villager said half jokingly.
white house in China-top10 UGLY BUILDING
Not only whitehouse,the Russian Kremlin was copied and become the office building in Beijing.
ugly china buildings -morn bm-2013
Chongqing Tian’anmen,despite money and wealth,the authority and power is also perfect idea in designing, a small town’s government office building was built to be same as Beijing Tiananmen,which is the political center of China.
Tiananmen square in Chongqing-top 10 ugly buildings
5..Swan harbor,its appearance is similar to Sydney Opera House.
swan harbor-top10 ugly building
6.Suzhou London tower:Suzhou Xiangcheng built the landmark “London Tower Bridge” with style and characteristics comparable to the “London Tower Bridge”, a symbol of London in the United Kingdom. With four towers, four crowns, and two covered bridges, you can enjoy the beautiful scenery of Xiangcheng when you climb up, and you can enjoy the scenery of both sides of the strait.can you see the difference?
london tower-ugly building materials-china-top 10
7.Wuliangye -wine bottle.
This is not a wine bottle,but a office building located in China Wuliangye,a wine factory in Sichuan.they build a building based on their best selling wine.
wuliangye -top 10 china ugly building
Another similar building also exist in Hubei wine factory.
wine bottle building-China top 10 ugly buildings
8.Tianzi hotel.Yes,this building is designed based on China legend people,they ‘re the symbol of long life,wealthy,and power.
Fu Lu and Shou are the characters in the traditional Chinese cultural mythology. they symbolize wealth, fame and longevity, and can be collectively referred to as “three stars”, “three immortals” or “fortune longevity”.
tianzi hotel-china topp 10 ugly building
9.Beijing Pangu ,the overall building looks like a Chinese dragon,but the dragon head is quite special and looks quite strange.
The “torch”-style main building (Block A) has a height of 191.65 meters, and it appeared in the Chinese scene of the movie “Transformers 4”
Pangu Grand View is a real estate project integrating office buildings, international apartments, hotels and commercial corridors. Pangu Seven Star Hotel is located in it. The hotel has a fitness club, a French restaurant, a Japanese restaurant, and a sky lounge.
10.Shenyang Jinshan square,the building looks like FIFA world cup trophy.
shenyang jinsha square-top 10 ugly buildings
11..The Tea Culture Exhibition Hall, known as “the world’s first pot”, is located on the top of Huoyan Mountain in Meitan County, Guizhou Province. The “teapot” is a reinforced concrete structure with a height of 48.2 meters, a base height of 25.6 meters, a total height of 73.8 meters, a maximum diameter of 24 meters, and a volume of 28,360.23 cubic meters.
GUIZHOU teapot -top 10 ugly buildings
12.BAOJI FAMEN temple,actually I don’t know what’s this exactly,the temple looks like hands…
13.Suzhou
Easten waterfall. The world’s tallest artificial waterfall building is located in Xiangcheng District, Suzhou. The building is the world’s highest Guinness-level artificial water system landscape. It is 110 meters high and has a construction area of 19,437 square meters. The entire building consists of 6 stepped bases with a 63-meter main waterfall and 113 meters It is composed of the top floor of the Optimus Jade Column with a height of more than 138 meters, and it is named the Oriental Waterfall Building,in 2015 the building was removed.
waterfall building-CHINA UGLY BUILDING
14.Hefei Wanda Plaza.Hefei Wanda Cultural Tourism City covers an area of 100 hectares, with a total construction area of 900,000 square meters, and plans four major contents of culture, tourism, commerce, and hotels.The building is a drum..
hefei wanda-china ugly buildings-morn bm
15.Yes,Wanda again,it’s another buildings based on a teapot.The building has a height of 38.8 meters. The materials used are mainly aluminum plates and insulated glass. Each piece of glass has different shapes and sizes. The dome uses artistic stained glass.
wanda teapot-ugly buildings election in China
16.Chongqing hot pot museum:The love for hot pot in China brings the idea that makes the hot pot museum to be a hot pot into life…Right,China designers,perfect,great work.
hot pot museum-ugly Chinese buildings-top 10
17.Beijing Xingchuang center.Xingchuang Building is located in Daxinghuang Village, It is a commercial office building with a height of 80 meters.people like to call it “Large Intestine Tower”.
18.Guiyang Science &technology center
I don’t know how to comment it,but it’s really strange and looks very in-comfortable.
19.The gate of orient
The total site area of orient gate is 24,319 square meters, and the total construction area (including the underground part) is 453,141.79 square meters. Among them, the above-ground construction area is 336680.71 square meters, and the underground construction area is 116461.08 square meters.
Eastern Gate won the title of “China’s most complex super high-rise building”; “China’s tallest infinity swimming pool” ; “China’s tallest crossing Tianhe” ; “China’s tallest sky Soviet garden” Other honors.
Don’t you think it a big trousers?
20.Guangzhou Nanfeng mansion,another building with unique shape.really don’t understand what the architect was thinking when designing the special shape.
Later we’ll share the second part of the China ugly building in another post,to be continued